The Insider

Part 2 of our interview with Carisa Hendrix where we talk about Lucy Darling's first ever time on stage, material selection, and more. 

Part 1 of a very interesting interview with Carisa Hendrix. This week, we talk about her start in performing. Aged 16, doing what she needed to do in order to pay rent. We then move on to the birth of Lucy Darling and Carisa's relationship with crowd work. Part 2 next Monday. 

The delightful Chris Power joins me to chat about Coins Through Silk, Vernon, Opus, Williamson and The Amateur Magician's Handbook. 

My guest today is a real worker. He has 20 years of experience, does 350 plus shows a year and performs regularly at the magic castle and has performed at the white house multiple times. We talk about his convention, comedy, process, virtual shows, marketing and how to avoid burnout.  And I do an ad read that is timed so well, I even impressed myself!

Mike and I discuss The Long Island Mystics, Owen's, his constant refinement of tricks, why his tricks are all so long and there's a great story about Copperfield too. Remember, sign up for MIke's Masterclass: Live right here: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/masterclass/mike-caveney-masterclass-live/ it starts this Sunday, March 6th 2021. 

I carry on my conversation with Doug Dyment. We touch on essential mentalism books, readings, magic squares and stacks.  As promised, here's a link to Doug's site: https://www.deceptionary.com which is full of useful resources. 

Hello and welcome back to The Insider! Nice to be here.  I think this episode is a rarity. It's the first of a 2-part interview with the amazing mentalist Doug Dyment. When I was researching him for the show, there's very little online to go on. He keeps himself to himself. So I hope you enjoy spending some time in his company.  As promised in the show, here's a link to his site: https://www.deceptionary.com and here is the link to the questions to ask yourself about your character: https://www.deceptionary.com/performance.html If you'd not noticed, we're also trying video of the show now, so the video of this will be on the VI blog and on our YouTube channel. Let me know if you like the video, or if you prefer just the audio. You can drop me a line at damian@vanishingincmagic.com

Here's a little treat for you. A throwback episode way back to the 4th show! We had Ben Seidman on then, and he was inspiring, funny and smart.  Which is exactly what he will be on Wednesday January 6th when he shares his amazing virtual show "Camera Tricks" with hundreds of magicians around the world. Plus, afterwards, there's an exclusive 60 minute Q&A.  It's like a gala show at a convention, but you don't have to leave your home.  Come join in the fun and get the best seat for the show vanishingincmagic.com/showtime

Michael and I continue our conversation from last week. 

In the first of a two-part episode, Michael Close and I talk about memdeck work, an incredible video from the 90s of him performing what clearly is the best card trick ever seen on TV, how to get on Fool Us, mistakes people make when applying to be on the show and the thing about the ring… And sorry, I accidentally recorded using the in-built mic on my laptop rather than my lovely one. But, Mike sounds great, so hope that makes up for it.  Links: Demystifying The Memdeck - https://www.michaelclose.com/pages/demystifying-the-memdeck-targeted-training Best card trick ever seen on television - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zYLyjFwagk Garret Ring Situation explained in detail - https://www.patreon.com/posts/43691718

Ever wondered what Andi's first magic book was? What Josh's favorite book that VI published is? What George thinks is the most challenging book to produce was? All this and more will be answered in this episode.  Sorry about George and Joshua's audio. I tidied it up as best I could. 

Jack shares half an hour of his time in a rare interview to talk about gambling, angles, using gaffs, and a hilarious tale about a money game...

Jonathan Levit joins us today and we talk about Ricky Jay, tips for virtual shows, teaching magic for movies and more. As promised in the show, here is a link to Jonathan's favorite musician, his ladyfriend, Kasey Lansdale: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TEsJcvC1ratvxRrXYEcg8?autoplay=true

Welcome to this special episode of the show. Recorded live, yesterday evening. This was live streamed out to Facebook and YouTube and is an AMA with Andi and Josh. They were asked from really genuinely tough questions and some really interesting ones too. Oh, and I clicked the wrong button in the software at one point. Please let us know if you enjoyed this and if you'd like them to do it again. We really had so many more questions that we had time for. So let us know!

My guest today burst onto the magic scene with smash hit releases like Dress Code, had a huge magic prank show and then went on to consult for the biggest magicians and tv shows in the world. I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation.